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The folks over on the Planet Iacon facebook page have posted some new images of the recently revealed Takara Tomy Transformers DOTM Dark Energon Edition Megatron, a repaint of ROTF Leader Class Megatron. Images mirrored below:

that is a really nice repaint. but the mold is still crap.

That mold needs a lot more than a good paint job to look good.

I don't own this mold, and I LOVE this new color scheme. I'm a sucker for the black-purple-silver combination. I hope this gets a domestic release (which I doubt), but I'll import if the price isn't prohibitive.

I'm really liking this paint scheme! If it ever comes domestic I may bite, but I doubt that'll happen.

Because Dark energon was totally in the movies

Sechsy!

Even though the dark energon makes no sense (movie wise), I gotta say... This is the superior color scheme of all the RotF Leader Megatrons, he look's awesome!

Love the colors, hate the mold! Would love to seen the colors on a update leader class version of Megatron, but not this. Oh well, money goes to something else.

I wouldn't mind seeing it on the voyager mold.

Goofy crab claw aside, that was a decent rendition of the character.

rpetras wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing it on the voyager mold.

Goofy crab claw aside, that was a decent rendition of the character.

Yeah the voyager mold would have been better.

me no likey the green one.

To bad it isnt a new leader mold :/

So the packaging is a hybrid between the DOTM design (background, logo, color scheme, aesthetics) and ROTF (text details, information, gimmick promotion). Neat. That makes his a unique, custom packaging.

BeastProwl wrote:Because Dark energon was totally in the movies

Who cares?

Galvatron anyone?

GuyIncognito wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:Because Dark energon was totally in the movies

Who cares?

The Aligned fanboys. Like myself.

PrymeStriker wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:Because Dark energon was totally in the movies

Who cares?

The Aligned fanboys. Like myself.

Could be a micro-coninuity of the Tyran cluster.

Despite a hard to make mold, Takara made this paint job the greatest!

Why doesn't some third party company make a set of arms for this mold. I bet it would sell like hot cakes. You can mark me down for 3.

I already have the Shadow Command version of this mold so I doubt I'll be getting this one, but it does look spiffy.

Pretty much stating the obvious, but it's the arms that ruin the ROTF LC Megatron toy; and that's not something a bit of silver and purple paint can fix.

The paint looks so awesome.

That looks great! Even next to ROTF Megatron which had a good color set, I have the Takara one but there is hardly a difference between that one and the Hasbro one.

Very tempted to get one, with the G1 Leader Ironhide (mediocre mold but the paint makes it good enough).

I wish Voyager Shockwave's head was a bit bigger, but I'll slap it on that Megatron anyway. He soooo looks like Shockwave.

Why didn't Takara just upscale the hell out of DOTM Voyager Megatron? I mean, they did it with deluxe WFC Soundwave, and I really like Voyager DOTM Megz.

noctorro wrote:Why didn't Takara just upscale the hell out of DOTM Voyager Megatron? I mean, they did it with deluxe WFC Soundwave, and I really like Voyager DOTM Megz.

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe someone at Hasbro thinks villains don't sell so well, however true or false that may be.

I'd be almost as happy if they'd release a DMK DOTM Megs. A non-transforming figure would be able to capture all of his CG render's rusty, rugged detail. I know many don't like the irony of non-transforming TF figures, but in the case of Bayverse designs, it's excusable due to all the details and added accuracy you get from it.

Shockwave would make the perfect DMK, though, since he doesn't even transform in DOTM.

Even know he looks nice in these colors this is total bullshit. This isn't what he looked like in dotm why can we get a leaderclass of what he looked like in DOTM instead of repaints of ROTF figures.

Hotrodimust wrote:Even know he looks nice in these colors this is total bullshit. This isn't what he looked like in dotm why can we get a leaderclass of what he looked like in DOTM instead of repaints of ROTF figures.

Because they're both cheap-asses?